Applied Sciences, Volume 9, Issue 14

The analysis of animal movement from telemetry data provides insights into how and why animals move. While traditional approaches to such analysis mostly focus on predicting animal states during movement, we describe an approach that allows us to ide...

In this study, the spatial distribution of PM2.5 air pollution in Mexico City from 37 personal exposures was modeled. Meteorological, demographic, geographic, and social data were also included. Geographic information systems (GIS), spatial analysis,...

Tempcore process simulator (TPS) has been developed in this study to analyze the microstructural evolution of quenched and tempered rebar. There has been an increasing need to relate the complex microstructures to the resulting properties of quenched...

Structural colors generated by plasmonic resonances in metallic nanostructures have been intensively studied and exciting progress has been made. However, because of the inherent plasmon damping, the saturation of these colors generated by metallic n...

The real weld toe geometry is generally not mathematically perfect, resulting in obvious stress concentration effects, both on the weld section and along the longitudinal direction of the weld toe. The true stress-strain state at the local weld toe d...

The shape accuracy of microstructures is an important factor that directly affects the quality and performance of products. Nevertheless, it is difficult to find a study for the shape accuracy of microstructures below several microns. This study aime...

One of the recent news headlines is that a pedestrian was killed by an autonomous vehicle because safety features in this vehicle did not detect an object on a road correctly. Due to this accident, some global automobile companies announced plans to...

Mesenchymal stromal cells (MSCs) are a promising source for tissue engineering of soft connective tissues. However, the differentiation capacity of MSCs varies among individual cell lines. Here, we show marker genes to predict the adipogenic potentia...

As a Kansei engineering design expert system, the product form design multi-objective evolutionary algorithm model (PFDMOEAM) contains various methods. Among them, the multi-objective evolutionary algorithm (MOEA) is the key to determine the performa...

Phthalates (or phthalate esters, PAEs) and bisphenol A (BPA) are widely used in various industries, particularly in the fields of cosmetics and packaging, and they increase the malleability and workability of materials. As a result of their use, some...